Orson Scott Card Quotes

What cannot be healed has been healed. What was lost forever has been found. Therefore let that which cannot be forgiven be forgiven.

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• I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • God
  • Why
  • Problem

• All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Men
  • Man
  • Respect

• 'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Being
  • Outsiders
  • Vine

• It's good to have to put yourself in someone else's skin. It's all-consuming.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Good
  • Yourself
  • Skin

• To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Success
  • Man
  • Opportunity

• In 1930s mysteries, all sorts of motives were credible which aren't credible today, especially motives of preventing guilty sexual secrets from coming out. Nowadays, people sell their guilty sexual secrets.

  

  P. D. James
  • People
  • Today
  • Guilty

• I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Like
  • Evening
  • Dressing

• I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • Cute
  • Only
  • Revolutionary

• I didn't go to school a lot.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • School
  • Go
  • Lot

• Oh God, I'm awful at sports. In gym I just try and avoid getting hit in the face.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • God
  • Sports
  • Face

• The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Present
  • Influence
  • More

• There is no kind of music I don't listen to. Everything good is interesting. I am as happy with a Bach fugue as I am with a record by Thelonious Monk.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • Good
  • Music
  • Happy

• To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • English
  • More
  • Manners

• We can succeed only by concert. It is not, 'Can any of us imagine better,' but, 'Can we all do better?'

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Better
  • Succeed
  • Concert

• As a little kid, I watched hip hop get created. So it's an honour for me to represent the Bronx, the motherland of hip hop.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Kid
  • Created
  • Represent

• Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Gold
  • Lead
  • Silver

• I don't think that technology is going to allow for greater subjugation of people. I think it's gonna give them more freedom.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Technology

• For me, acting comes straight from the heart. In that sense I don't act at all. I think that to feel the character's pain I have to be myself. Somewhere audiences see that.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Heart
  • Character
  • Pain

• I hope that not only my documentaries, but everybody's documentaries, last. It will really confuse historians in the next century, because they'll have, in addition to all the print material, they'll have all these pictures to look at.

  

  Frederick Wiseman
  • Hope

• Getting trapped back in the '80s, it's almost like a comic nightmare, which for me is a very real nightmare. Every time I flip through the cable, I have flashbacks.

  

  John Cusack
  • Time
  • Real

• I feel liberated being around women who are liberated.

  

  Phoebe Waller-Bridge
  • Women

• When 'You've Lost that Lovin' Feeling' hit, we were doing a show called 'Shindig!' and the Righteous Brothers suddenly became big business.

  

  Bill Medley The Righteous Brothers
  • Business
  • Feeling
  • Lost

• In my mind, I've never lost a fight.

  

  Jon Jones
  • Mind
  • Lost

• What cannot be healed has been healed. What was lost forever has been found. Therefore let that which cannot be forgiven be forgiven.

  

  Orson Scott Card
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